Tag number IDs 400-pound suspect in Woodbury bank job

WOODBURY — It took city police less than 15 minutes to identify the 6-foot, 5-inch, 400-pound man who held up the bank on Route 45 Thursday.

But it wasn’t his height, or weight, or the fact that he didn’t wear gloves or a mask — it was because someone was able to jot down the license plate number of his baby-blue Ford Taurus.

It was just before 4 p.m. when the man entered the TD Bank branch, produced a note demanding money and saying he had a gun, said police. No weapon was ever displayed.

The man fled with an unspecified amount of money in the Taurus, police said.

At about 9 p.m., Ryan Dougherty, 30, was arrested at his home on Chew Lane in Washington Township by Woodbury police, with the assistance of the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office Fugitive Unit, the FBI and Washington Township police. Police said he was transported in an ambulance because he could not fit in a police car.

Dougherty was charged with armed robbery, terroristic threats, harassment and disorderly conduct and was committed to the Gloucester County Jail in Woodbury in default of $100,000 full-cash bail, police said.

Additional charges are pending a search of Dougherty’s Taurus, said police.

Dougherty was also charged by Bellmawr police with the armed robbery of a 7-Eleven Store on Browning Road in Bellmawr at about 11 p.m. Wednesday, said police. Bail for that charge was set at $100,000 full cash.

Anyone with information about the robberies is asked to contact Detective Tom Ryan or Investigator James Jones at 856-845-0065.